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Lance Johnson Ministries
If I were to decide that I wanted to start a new career, I couldn’t just hop into it without any experience. I would need the training, possible schooling, and even certifications. Learning and growing take time and effort. In today’s message, Bishop
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Roots, Rage and Real Freedom: Bishop Lance on Daily Change
Episode Overview
- Real change is a daily decision to follow Jesus, not a one-time altar moment.
- Religion trims behaviours, but the Holy Spirit aims to transform the heart and desires.
- Unresolved roots such as bitterness, hurt and unforgiveness keep bringing back old struggles.
- Honest confession and transparency are essential steps towards genuine healing and freedom.
- God’s goal is full deliverance, not simply getting your problems under control for a season.
“God doesn't want your problems under control. He wants you delivered.”
Get ready to be moved by real-life accounts of faith, addiction, and hard-won change. This message from Bishop Lance Johnson centres on one unwavering theme: following Jesus is a daily choice, not a one-off moment at an altar. Speaking straight to people who’ve battled addiction, anger, trauma, and family chaos, Bishop Lance contrasts religious behaviour-modification with genuine heart transformation.
He shares his own story: a childhood home marked by violence and rage, witnessing his grandfather’s suicide at twelve, and later sinking into a $250-a-day cocaine habit, alcoholism, and womanising. He explains how Jesus freed him from drugs, alcohol, and other addictions, yet one stubborn issue wouldn’t let go—explosive anger.
Instead of pretending that believers don’t struggle, he talks openly about the temper that lingered beneath the surface, occasionally erupting in ways that left him ashamed as a pastor and leader. The turning point comes with his focus on what he calls the “root” rather than the “branches” of our problems. Cutting off symptoms works for a while, but “God doesn’t want your problems under control.
He wants you delivered.” Drawing from Hebrews 12, he challenges you to see how unresolved bitterness, unforgiveness, past abuse, and family patterns can keep reappearing—whether in repeated relapses, job changes fuelled by offence, or cycling through churches every few years. He calls for a “revival of transparency”, insisting that “you can’t get healed from what you can’t confess”. If you’re saved but still battling addiction, sexual sin, rage, or deep mistrust, this episode speaks directly to that tension.
It’s blunt, raw, and aimed at anyone who’s tired of trimming branches while their roots remain untouched. Could this be the moment you stop settling for control and start seeking real freedom?
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